Letter: I’ll stick to teaching science
(Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) An eleventh grader counts Paramecium from a glass slide during biology class in October 2016.
Having read the comments regarding the new Utah school science standards, does “giving equal time” mean I have to find room in my curriculum to include astrology, alchemy and the flat-earthers?
Science is not a democracy. We do not vote on which facts we want to recognize. Until creationists publish in a peer-reviewed journal, or a hominid fossil is found in strata older than 30 million years, I will stick to teaching science.
Mark Bromley, Sandy
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